There are many ways with other private browsing modes by which one can recover the information about a browsing session. InPrivate Subscriptions provides you the flexibility to increase the capability of InPrivate Blocking as the user can subscribe to lists of websites to allow or block. InPrivate Filtering gives a greater degree of choice and control to the users about the information which can be used by third party websites to trace the browsing activities. Internet Explorer 8’s InPrivate Browsing can help in preventing the user’s browsing history, form data, cookies, temporary Internet files, usernames and passwords from being saved by the browser and thus there is no easily accessible proof of search or browsing history. InformationWeek described it as a ''Stealth' Privacy Mode'. InPrivate Browsing was described as a 'porn mode' in various news outlets like similar modes of privacy protection in Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.5. Microsoft defended this functionality after Gregg Keizer of reported it as a feature like ‘phone home’.Ī new security mode called as InPrivate feature first came with IE8 and two main features were there: InPrivate Filtering and InPrivate Browsing. But Microsoft does not store this information. Possibly, a little bit of personally-identifiable information like the user’s IP address and information regarding browser is also sent to Microsoft as a part of the HTTPS protocol. This feature Suggested Sites is not turned on by default and also disabled when the user is visiting SSL-secured IP address, intranet or IDN address sites or browsing with InPrivate enabled. This connection saves the information and a uniquely generated identifier, per-session for a short period of time. Microsoft has described this feature as a tool which can suggest websites in which browser sends information over a secure connection to Microsoft. Microsoft set priorities like ease of use, security, Ajax support, Cascading Style Sheets and improvements in RSS for developing Internet Explorer 8. About 20-22% is IE8’s estimated global market share. This browser was launched as the successor to IE 7 released back in 2006 and is the default browser for Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 R2 operating systems excluding Europe.

There are two builds available – 32-bit and 64-bit. The lovely people at Microsoft now provide virtual machines that will allow you to run from IE6 all the way up to IE11 on windows XP and Windows 7 To get started with these you need to install Virtual box, download the VMs you need from modern.ie and youre away. Internet Explorer 8 was released on 19 March, 2009 for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. For Safari, on PC Im not sure what your options are.

Windows Internet Explorer 8 (abbreviated IE8) is Microsoft’s newly launched web browser in the very old browser series of Internet Explorer.

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